@hig/Dropdown: The values in the text field are only displayed as a string (not as a react node)

[jzena]

Hi team, On the next example (image below) when I use the renderOption prop and then I create a span element inside it. When I open the list element, that is rendered as expected, but when I set the value prop, the textfield only display the string value(omit the span element)

[morrisallison]

@jzena What's the design or behavior are you trying to accomplish? Right now, the dropdown is based on the text field and was designed to represent text based data.

[jzena]

Hi @morrisallison I'd like the following behavior: and when I set the value prop I'd like to have something like that on the text_field:

[nfiniteset]

@jzena I understand the request and I can see the value but I'm not going to prioritize this right now—we have some more pressing work at the moment. I will keep this in mind as we work on Dropdown in the future.

To support this decision I looked at other popular dropdown/select libraries (react-select, select2) and found that they don't support this either. At least I know our Dropdown isn't behind on this.

Thanks for reaching out with the request though. Please hit us up with other questions or requests.